Today is Joan Crawford’s birthday! While the year is much-disputed, this great star is generally acknowledged to have been born today in 1904. Much has been written about actress Joan Crawford over the years–some go...

I just saw a teriffic movie yesterday. The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 comedy starring Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Spring Byington and Robert Cummings. Briefly, the plot involves the curmudgeonly owner of a departmen...

Happy 91 to singer/actress Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, a/k/a Doris Day. She had a fantastic career. Her voice is still one of most-recognized in modern musical history. Doris was pretty much squandered by her time in Holl...

Buckets of tears have flowed from the public on news of the passing of actor Leonard Nimoy. Forever associated with his Star Trek character, the Vulcan Mr. Spock, Nimoy left this mortal earth today at the age if 83. He h...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN POP CULTURE Actor Richard Roundtree will forever be identified with iconic detective John Shaft. As the hero of the 1971 blaxploitation classic, Roundtree inspired a generation and cemented his pla...

Today we lost one of the last links to 1930’s Hollywood. Actress Luise Rainer passed away at the incredible age of 104 in London. She was only 13 days shy of reaching 105. She began making films for the legendary M...

With all the comic-strip characters that were put on film in the 1930s and 1940s, you would have thought that Harold Gray’s precocious moppet would have been a huge deal. Actually, there were a couple of Little Orp...

Wow, we sure need some laughter right now. So here’s a collection of some of the funniest movie stills I could round up. Some are intentionally humorous—some are just examples of horrible taste. You be the judge! It...

I’ve certainly met a lot of colorful characters in my 40-plus years as an entertainment writer, but none was more memorable than actor Jonathan Harris. Today we remember his passing on this date in 2002. He was 87....

Only die-hard horror movie fans will recognize the name of actor Paul Naschy (1934-2009). But this Spanish filmmaker has produced, directed, written and starred in literally dozens of foreign terror films. For dec...

Gogo Lomo-David. Don’t forget that name! SMEF predicts you’ll be hearing a lot from this talented young actor in the near future. You can see Gogo on the big screen starting this weekend in the major motion picture F...

A belated birthday wish to the late film director Robert Wise. Wise was best known for his big-budget musicals like West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Star. But this blogger credits the filmmaker for helming one of ...

I recently attended a couple of pop-culture shows, both which took place in Chicago during the same weekend. One was quite enjoyable, while the other was a hot mess. I’d been looking forward to the annual Chicago Holly...